LITERATURE / Book Presentation
33 1/3: Re
New perspectives on Café Tacvba
Are you Generation Re? What makes Café Tacvba’s Re one of the most groundbreaking and enduring albums in Latin American music? From its eclectic musical palette to its unforgettable lyrics, Re the album shattered conventions and redefined what Latin music could sound like.
Join author Carmelo Esterrich, DJ/promoter/writer Gabriel Feijóo, and journalist Mayra Mangal for an engaging conversation about Bloomsbury’s book Re, which explores the revolutionary album that became a Latin American classic.
The book Re is part of Bloomsbury’s acclaimed 33 1/3 series, a celebrated collection in which each volume explores a single, iconic album. Re marks a milestone as the first book in the series dedicated to Mexican music, bringing Café Tacvba’s groundbreaking record and its cultural impact to an international audience.
This event is presented in collaboration with The Center for Fiction.
Event Information
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Center for Fiction
Address: 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets: RSVP Coming Soon
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About Carmelo Esterrich:
Carmelo Esterrich is a Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Columbia College Chicago, USA where he teaches film studies and Latin American studies. He is the author of Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture (2018) and Star Wars Multiverse (2021), part of the Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture series.
About Gabriel Feijóo:
Gabriel Feijóo is a promoter, radio DJ, music director, and pop writer. A Mexico City-born, Chicago art school-trained polymath, he works at the intersection of music, culture, art, and media, with a transdisciplinary background spanning art production, journalism, design, visual communications, sound practices, cultural studies, and film.
About Mayra Mangal:
Mayra Mangal is a bilingual multimedia journalist and editor with over two decades of experience covering entertainment, fashion, and lifestyle. Formerly a senior writer and online editor for People en Español, her work has also appeared in People, InStyle, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar.
About the book Re:
Re is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of the 1994 album. Released by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, Re the album is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts a myriad of musical genres with the pulse, attitude, and energy of punk and rock. Mambo and ska, samba and salsa, punk and industrial, disco and Mexican banda are but a few of the genres woven through this musical journey.
Re is not appropriation, but rather transformation: 20 original tracks that think through the music created and consumed across Latin America. Its lyrics add layer after layer of nuance and shock, playing with the cultural and musical expectations of the many genres the album draws from. In a very real way, Re displays the post-punk origins of the band—loud, thoughtful, nerdy, quirky, irreverent—crafting songs that reflect the historical, cultural, musical, and political complexity of Mexico and Latin America. It’s often called Café Tacvba’s “White Album” within the Anglo world, but the album far exceeds that simplistic comparison.
